VOL. XLV

No 25

24-June-2002

QATAR

Qatar Targeting 1MnB/D Crude Production Capacity, 'Attiyah Says

Qataris aiming to raise crude production capacity from the current level of around850,000 b/d to 1mn b/d over the next 18 months, Oil Minister 'Abd Allah al-'Attiyah said on 12June after signing the agreement for TotalFinaElf痴al-Khaleej north development plan. The minister saidthat new technology was enabling fields that were once dismissed as beinguneconomic to be developed commercially. Maersk Oil...